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.snd the violence of open enemies, were iri lus eftimation 
no more than light affliftions, which endure but for a 
moment. Loll in the folitilde of the wildernefs, expofed 
to the tempefls of the ocean, or affailed by the outrage 
of the multitude, he was not deftitute and forfaken ; for 
the Almighty was his guide and his comforter. With 
patience he faw the frowns of the great, and heard the 
Icoffs of the vulgar. He proclaimed, with the unfliaken 
confidence of truth, the wondrous tidings of the new dif- 
penfation, and exhorted a guilty race to repentance and 
amendment. Elate with the accomplifliment of his pi¬ 
ous talk, in bringing many fiteep to the fold of Chrift, 
he gloried amid the flames of martyrdom, and breathed 
out his foul with joy.” See the article Missionary. 
To DISCI'PLE, v. a. To train; to bring up : 
He did look far 
Into the fervice joflthe time, and was 
Dfcipled of the braved. Shakefpeare. 
To punifh ; to difeipline. Not in ufe. 
DTSCl'PLESHIP, /. The date or funftion of a difei- 
ple, orfollowerbf a mafter.—That to which junification 
is promifed, is the giving up of the whole foul entirely 
unto Chrift, undertaking difciplefrip upon Chrift’s terms. 
Hammond. 
DISCIPLI'NABLE, adj. [ difciplinabilis, Lat.] Capa¬ 
ble of inftruftion ; capable of improvement by difeipline 
and learning. 
DISCIPLI'N ABLENESS, / Capacity of inftruftion ; 
qualification for improvement by education and difei¬ 
pline.—We find in animals, efpecially fome of them, as 
foxes, dogs, apes, horfes, and elephants, not only per¬ 
ception, phantafy, and memory, common to mod if not 
all animals, but fomething of fagacity, providence, and 
di/ciplinablenefs. Hale. 
DISCIP'LINANTS, /. in church hiftory, a feft or re¬ 
ligious order who ufed to fcourge themfelves by way of 
mortification. 
DISCIPLINA'RIAN, adj. Pertaining to difeipline.— 
What eagernefs in difeiplinarian uncertainties, when the 
love of God and our neighbour, evangelical unqueftion- 
ables, are neglefted! GlanviUc. 
DISCIPLINA'RIAN, f. difeiplina, Lat.] One who 
rules or teaches with great ftriftnefs; one who allows 
no deviation from dated rules. A follower of the pref- 
byterian feft, fo called from their perpetual clamour 
about difeipline.—'They draw thofe that diffent into dif- 
like with the date, as puritans, or difciplinarians. Sanderf. 
Pax. Eccl. 
DISCIPLINARY, adj. \_difciplina, Lat.] Pertaining 
to difeipline. Relating to government.—Thofe canons 
in behalf of marriage were only difciplinary, grounded on 
prudential motives. Bifliop Feme. —Relating to a regular 
courfe of education.—Thefe are the dudies, wherein our 
noble and gentle youth ought to bedow their time in a 
dfciplinary way. Milton. 
DISCIPLINE,/. [ difeiplina , Lat.] Education; in¬ 
ftruftion ; the aft of cultivating the mind ; the aft of 
forming the manners.—The cold of the northern parts is 
that which, without aid of difeipline, doth make the bo¬ 
dies liardeft, and the courage warmed. Bacon. 
He had charged my difeipline to frame, 
And tutors nouriture to overfee. Spenfer. 
Rule of government; order; method of government.— 
As we are to believe for ever the articles of evangelical 
doftrine, fo the precepts of difeipline we are, in like fort, 
bound for ever to obferve. Hooker. 
While we do admire 
This virtue and this moral difeipline , 
Let’s be no hoicks. Shakefpeare, 
Military regulation : 
Let crooked deel invade 
The lawlefs troops which difeipline difclaim, 
And their fuperil nous growth with rigour tame. Dryden, 
S Gs 
A date of fubjeftion.—The mod perfeft, who have their 
padions in the bed difeipline , are yet obliged to be con- 
dantly on their guard. Rogers .—Any thing taught; art; 
fcience.—Art may be faid to overcome and advance na¬ 
ture in thefe mechanical difeiplines , which, in this refpeft, 
are much to be preferred. Wilkins. —Puniftiment; chaftife- 
ment; correftion.—A lively cobler kicked and fpurred 
while his wife was carrying him, and had fcarcely paffed 
a day without giving her the difeipline of the drap. Ad- 
difon. —External mortification.—The love of God makes 
a man chade without the laborious arts of fading and 
exterior difeipline ; he reaches at glory without any other 
arms but thofe of love. Taylor. 
To DISCIPLINE, v. a. To educate; to inftruft; to 
bring up.—We are wife enough to begin when they arc 
very young, and difeipline by times thole other creatures 
we would make ufeful and good. Locke. —To regulate ; 
to keep in order.—They look to us, as we fliould judge 
of an army of well -difeiplined foldiers at a didance. Denham. 
—To punifh; to correft ; to chadife. To advance by 
inftruftion: 
The law appear’d imperfeft, and but giv’n 
With purpofe to refign them in full time 
Up to a better covenant, difeiplin’d 
From fhadowy types to truth, from flefn to fpirit. Milton. 
To DISCLA'IM, v. a. To difown ; to deny any know¬ 
ledge of; to retradt any union with ; to abrogate ; to re¬ 
nounce.—Very few, among thofe who profefs themfelves 
Chriltians, difclaim all concern for their fouls, difown the 
authority, or renounce the expeditions of, the gofpel. 
Rogers. 
He calls the gods to witnefs their offence; 
Difclaims the war, afferts his innocence. Dryden. 
To DISCLA'IM, v. n. To difavow all part.—Nature 
difclaims in thee. Shakefpeare. —Thus to difclaim in all th‘ 
effedls of pleafure. Ben Jcnfon. 
DISCLAIM'ER, /. One that difclaims, difowns, or 
renounces. 
DISCLAIM'ER, /. in law, is a plea containing an ex- 
prefs denial, or renouncing of a thing ; as if a tenant fue 
a replevin, upon the diftrefs of the lord, and the lord 
avows the taking, faying the tenant holds of him as of 
his lord, and that he diftrained for the rent not paid, or 
fervice not performed -. now, if the tenant fay he doth 
not hold of him, this is called a difclaimer, and the lord 
proving the tenant to hold of him, on a writ of right fur 
difclaimer brought, the tenant fliall lofe his land. Terms dc 
Ley. This difclaimer by a tenant, is confidered as a civil 
crime, and punifhed accordingly, by forfeiture of lands to 
the lord, on reafons moft apparently feodal. Finch. 270. 1. 
So if in any court of record, the particular tenant does 
any aft which amounts to a virtual difclaimer; if he 
claims any greater eftate than was granted him at the firft 
infeodation; or takes upon himfelf thofe rights which 
belong only to tenants of a fuperior clafs. 1 Inf. 252. If 
he affirms the reverfion to be in a ftranger by accepting Ids 
fine, attorning as his tenant, collufive pleading, and the 
like ; filch behaviour amounts to a forfeiture of his par¬ 
ticular eftate. 3 Comm. 233. 
If a writ of pracipe be brought again!! two perfons for 
land, and one of them, the tenant, faith that he is not 
tenant, nor claims any thing in the lands ; this is a dif¬ 
claimer as to him, and the other fliall have the whole 
land. Terms de Ley. And when a tenant hath difclairaed, 
upon aftion brought again!! him, he fhall not have refti- 
tution on writ of error, &c. again!! his own ad! ; but is 
barred of his right to the land difclaimed. 8 Rep. 62. 
But a verbal difclaimer fliall not t3ke place again!! a deed 
of lands : nor fliall the difclaimer of a wife during the 
coverture bar her entry on her lands, 3 Rep. 26. Baron 
and feme may difclaim for the wife ; though if the huf- 
band hath nothing but in right of his wife, he cannot dif¬ 
claim. Such perfon as cannot lofe the thing perpetually 
in which he difclaims, fliall not be permitted to difclaim : 
a bifliop, &c. may not difclaim, for he cannot diveft the 
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